We're working on adding colors for folders in CryptDrive (https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/issues/383) and trying to decide on a color palette.
While there are lots of resources available for choosing small palettes which are accessible to people with colorblindness, we're having trouble finding larger ones (16-20 colors) which are still pleasant enough that people won't yell at us for being bad designers.
Can anyone point us in the right direction?
@cryptpad have you run across Color Oracle? https://www.colororacle.org/usage.html
Hi so I was sent here from a vaguely related thread about visual accessibility, in which I was talking about my own issues having neurological problems related to a seizure disorder, and how for me, low contrast is the way to go, and really what I get out of it is that everybody's needs are different, and extensive customization really is the only way to accommodate the greatest number of people.
@attackfish @Xantulon @cryptpad
Is there a risk that high contrast contributes to a seizure? If so, how do you handle that? Browser extensions to make things more muted?
@attackfish @ansuz @cryptpad I wonder if a screen filter approach like Color Oracle uses could be a workaround on the user end.
@attackfish @Xantulon @cryptpad
That sounds rough. I appreciate your offering a viewpoint I hadn't considered.
We're planning to release a simple palette for now, but we'll try to follow up soon with a second version to try to address some of these issues.
@ansuz
@Xantulon @cryptpad
It's not a seizure risk (pulsing movement or lights on the other hand...) but seizures cause brain damage, and mine is to my temporal and occipital lobes. The occipital lobe does most of the interpretation of visual data, and for me, that brain damage means that high contrast things make it so I can't actually read the text on the screen, and when I try, I get headaches and nausea.